Absurd study suggests eating fruits and vegetables leads to cancer

A conference abstract on 166 non-smokers with early-onset lung cancer linked higher fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain intake to the disease.

Experts criticized the study as small, unreviewed, and methodologically weak, making the findings unreliable.

They also said the pesticide explanation was too speculative to support from the data presented.

Treating an unreviewed abstract as settled science could mislead the public and conflict with established nutrition evidence.